Filming

Today we finished filming! All of our scenes are now complete and we started to take the photos for our magazine covers and posters. After considering many options and lining up many shots I think that the best idea for my poster is an outdoor shot of my house (the setting) in the dark with lights on in the windows and maybe a full moon surrounded by clouds in the sky. I was able to take a few test photos and will upload these onto our Flickr account and later onto this blog. I am quite happy with this idea and the set-up reminds me of the cover for 'Last House on the Left'.

I like the composition of this poster and I think that it will inspire my ideas when I start to create my own. I really like the grayscale colour scheme which creates an old and mysterious look on the cover. The bright red in the word 'house' really attracts the attention of the audience and the decaying blood-like font creates semantic genre connotations.

The use of an eroded or decaying font is something I have looked at before in my research and I think that this would definitely work well on my poster. In terms of me creating a scary image of my house, I will try to take images in the dark, but it might be that when it comes to editing I will get a more successful result by taking it in daylight and then editing it later.

I don't want to compose my poster exactly the same as this poster, but the techniques  and conventions used in it are appropriate to my work and really resemble the effect I wanted to create.